actin
elie By

-) t our country is playing in
‘the Allied Nations.

|344 saw the unfolding of the
*% cordat of Teheran upon the
‘Hat battlefields of Europe.
“f'certed action on the part of
* Allied Nations from the “east
a and south,” became a real-
“DDay—on the beaches of
| mandy that day in early
be, the flower of Canada’s
+ hood leading in the mighti-
= military crusade of all time.
Fceping through France and
(sium the armies of Britain,
Pada and the USA fighting
_ stubbern grim determina-
©, brought liberation to mil-
| s of people from Nazi slav-
Paris ... the symbol, not
| of France, but of the free
dle of the world, sang again.
'mps Elysee“and Place de la
-— cord reechoed again to the
% cing sene of the ‘“Marseil-
'2>” and the marching feet of
— Maauis — French fighting
4 ch, descendants of the Com-
*@ ards- of 1871. From thou-
#§ is of “Hotels de Ville” the
} ted cross of the swastika
~ s torn from the flagstaff,
‘ the “Tricolor” of the Repub-
/wayed again.

' ties and villages of France
* i Belgium became a part of
* nada . .. watered with the
Lest of Canada’s blood, freed
‘| the finest of Canada’s sons.
'oss-studied fields that will
'> forever Canada” because
‘= sons and comrades sleep
} ore, where they fell: Muni
‘lich, Dick Steele, Richard
ois .. . their names are le-
m and deathiess.

©) the East, the Nazi murder-
-ons driven from the soil of
Seyiet Union, but in their
7 e untold destruction and un-
The Red
bringing
‘-dom to the peoples of the
if san and Baltic countries, lev-
a? = Hitler’s satellite states out
the war and giving a new hope
"freedom and democracy to
#atless millions of peoples who
«suffered between the twin
fs of German fascism and 7
x home-grown euisling breed.
4 Armies, upon whom history
d the task of standing be-
nm mankind and Nazi slay-
heroic sons and daughters
he Soviet land, gilded the
s of 1944 with undying

the south, sawdust Caesar
Ssolini, a mere puppet of the
niac of Berchtesgaden

ratricide ... on the run before
Pmicht of the 8th Army that
ed across the African desert
im El Alemein to Ravenna,
Gvine the Nazi beast ever near-

his lair across the Brenner
a3s_

Hing Out The Old;
Salute The New

By TOM McEWEN

As 1944 reaches its closing hours, we look back on its
4 P toric months of achievement w ith a deep pride in the

bringing victory within reach

QN December i, the first anni-
yersary/ of Teheran, Marshal
Joseph Stalin said:

“There are few instances m
history of plans for large-scale
military operations “under-
taken in, jeint actions against
a common enemy being carried
eut so fully and with such pre-
cision as the plan fer a joint
blow against Germany, drawn
up at the Teheran Confer-
ence.”

Cynics may rant, sneer and
make puny efforts at belittling
the concordat of Deheran; they
may presume to question the
sincerity of its prime movers,
but they cannot arsue away the
fact that 1944 has vindicated the
decisions of Teheran on every
Huropean battlefield. The unity
forged at Teheran and cemented
with the blood of the flower of
the Allied Nations, of which Can-
ada is a proud and honored mem-
ber, is the great achievement of
1944 ...a pattern for 1945 and
the years ahead.

Wie do not presume to be mili-|

tary experts, so we will not de-
bate whether the desperate of-
fensive of von Runstedt will be
“sustained,” “‘maintained,”’ “con-

|tained” or any of the other ad-

jectives the news commentators
like to wrap around it. We will
leave that to the Wilson Wood-
sides and the Philpotts. What we
know, from the lessons of 1944
is that if we maintain and build
our unity based upon all the
democratic progressive forces of
eur country, then von Runstedt’s
and his Fuehrer’s doom is sealed,
definitely and inevitably.

The new German offensive
may regain, temporarily, a few
miles of terri-

hundred square
tory but that is not his main ob-
jective . nor is it Paris.

The offensive of ven Runstedt
is directed against the unity of
Teheran, spurred on with the
neyer-dyinge hope that the unity
of the allied nations can be
broken, not by German weight
of arms, but by Nazi trickery
and propaganda, which feeds up-
on the racial and class divisions
and ‘prejudices common to all
bourgeois social systems.

British policy in Greece streng-
thens the German hope of a “soft
peace,” British tanks, planes and
troops against the Greek army
of liberation and against the
Greek people in their choice of
a democratic government strikes
heavier blows against the allied
nations than ever von Rundstedt
ean deliver with his army of
Nazi eriminals. When Ghurehill
places the Russian disposition of
the Polish “situation,” and the

TOM McEWEN

British disposition of the Greelk
“situation” as a qualification for
British forces being used against
Greek democrats, and refers to
the latter as “communist gang-=
sters from the hills,” the Four
Freedoms of the Atlantic Char-
ter and the Concordat of Tehe-
tan suffer a setback which only
a united people can repair.

The Greek crisis does not
“prove” as some are contending,
that the Atlantic Charter is now
a “ghost charter” or that the
eoncord of Teheran is another
“utopian hope exploded.’

The lessons that the objec-
tive unity of 1944. teaches us,
is that the Four Freedoms of

the Atlantic Charter and the
Concordat of Teheran must

become more and more the
weapons of the people to de-
fend the cause for which their
sons fight and die. With Ilya
Ehrenburg we must say to
those in authority, and with
maximum wunity—“we do not
replace fascists with semi
fascists.”

—Continued on Page 15

Saturday, December 30, 1944 — Page 9

Call Issued For Armed Uprising
Argentine Anti- Fascists

MEXICO CITY— (ALN) — Immediate preparation
for an armed rising by the Argentine people against their
“military-fascist dictatorship,” the creation of a ‘unified
high command” of all democratic opposition groups

and the formation of a sar

provisional government pledged|Pe°Ple and it has lost a great
to restore constitutional demo-| P22? of its influence im the arms
cracy were urged in a Its main support now is a small
manifesto distributed elan- | S*°UP OF Bstendacrey  byaclonza
déstinely in Argentina by the | ‘*®: speculators, Joan SENOS,
anti-fascist Junta Patria Libre 4xis-controlled foreign firms,

The signature of Victorio Codo-
villa, exiled Argentina labor and
Communist leader, appeared on
the manifesto, a copy of which
kas just reached here.

“The political awareness of
Argentine labor and the people
generally, together with the
present international . situation,
have created conditions which

| assure the triumph of a peoples’

uprising,’ the manifesto stated.
“Such action has not been pos-
sible so far because the demo-
eratic | Opposition movements
have worked independently, but
with the coordination of a ma-
jority of the groups opposing the
fascist regime and the creation
of a unified civil and military
command, success depends now
on our organizational speed and
choice of the proper time to act.”

DEMOSTRATIONS

Recent demonstrations, ac-
eordinge to the manifesto, “have
shown that the resistance move-
ment against the fascist dictator-
ship has reached a stage when
the organization of a popular re-
volt to overthrow the GOU
(Colonels? Lodge) demands im-
mediate attention. The people
are learning that only through
open struggle by all means in
their power will it be possible
to oust the present regime. That
is why democratic groups are
passing from the passive resist-
ance stage to that of active com-
bat.

“The military fascist regime
now has no support from the

Toledano Urges Labor
Unity At CTAL Meet

CALI, *Colombia — The common task of the Latin
Americar peoples will be to achieve their liberation withia
the framework of the United Nations declared Wicente Lom-

bardo Toledano in his opening
speech at the Congress of the
Latin American Confederation of
Workers (CTAL), which opened
here this week.

Delegates from 16 Latin Am-
erican countries, as well as fra-
ternal delegates from the Brit-
ish Trades Union Congress, the
CIO .and the Canadian unions
are attending. ;

Delegates from \the under-
ground Jabor unions of -Argen-
tina received a tremendous ova-
tion, and the fight against fas-
cism in Argentina was placed as
a decisive question before the
Congress.

In his speeches opening the
Congress and accepting his re-
election as president of the CT-
Al, Lombardo Toledano stress-
ed that democracy rather than
socialism is the immediate fu-
ture of the Americas. He review-

ed the role of the CTAL in
strengthening atin America
against the activities and provo-
cations of fascism, whcih is at-
tempting to channelize the dis-
eontent of the people against
the United States.

The Argentine delerates urg-
ed that the proposal of the Far-
zell regime for an inter-Ameri-
can conference to take up the
Argentine question be rejected

as a fascist maneuver to split
the Americas.
Much attention is being de-

voted to postwar economic ques-
tions as they affect the indus-
trialization of atin America
and the people’s standard of liv-
ing. The prospect of a Teheran
peace, presents very sreat= pos-
sibilities for the growth of Latin
American industries and the
more rapid development of the
national economies.

state-controlled monopolies and
a few companies controlled by
*M un ie h-minded’ capitalistic:
groups in certain allied coun-
tries. But this is only a minor—-
ity wing.”

LINKS WITH AXIS

‘Attacking th Argentine re-
gime’s links with the Axis, the
manifesto declared that the GOU
kas- transformed Argentina into
a concentration camp and oper-
ating base for international fas-
cism. Spies and provocators in

‘the pay of MHitlerism and the:

Palange have infiltrated in the
police, the army, the state ap-
paratus, industry and finance.
They control the foreign and do-

mestic policies of Argentina.
Axis .agents operate special
schools in our country to pre-
Eare missions in other Latin

American countries. These agents
are already penetrating into alll
latin America.

“Argentina is not only a cen-
ter for provocation and espionage.
but a center of anti-democratic
conspiracy. Hitlerism and the
Falange have piled up in Argen-
tina huge financial re ources,
brought here through such so-
ealled neutral countries as Spain,”
Portugal and Switzerland, using.
native fascists as intermediaries -
and dummy proprietors,

SINGLE COMMAND

Stating that “the discontent,
indignation, hatred and will to
fight of the Argentine people
will soon reach a climax,” the
manifesto asserted that “to as-
sure our triumph we must
achieve complete labor unity and
the unity of all democratic or-
ganizations in a powerful move-
ment of Nationa] Union, so that
all forces Im opposition to the
Nazifascist dictatorship may op=
erate under a single high com-
mand. The sooner this is achiey-
ed, the sooner the people will be-
come aware of their strength.”

The manifesto suggested that
after the GOU is overthrown
and democracy established, Ar-
gentina should develop a pro-
gram of agrarian reforms,
liquidate the “semi-feudal sys-
tem” and increase the purchas-
ine power of the rural popula-
tion. It also suggested emphasis
on international trade| with an
enlarged merchant fleet and im-
proved communications with
neighboring countries, and that
progressive foreign capital should
be welcomed. Purchase of ma-
chinery from the .United States
and Britain in exchange for Ar-
gentine agricultural cattle pro-
ducts was stressed as a means
of modernizing Argentine econ-
omy. The manifesto emphasiz-
ed that “National Union is the
only means to create a demo-
eratie government with social
content.” -